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Ring Drive Park

Ring Drive Park from directly overhead

Ring Drive Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 7 m. Church Hill stands 120 m to the north, 8.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Raheem Ali Carter Memorial Park, a park 0.4 miles away. State Routes 49 & 14A passes 11 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
7 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.33510, -72.02174

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Beaches
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Fort Hill: 1.0 mi
  • Hazelnut Hill: 1.4 mi
  • Averys Hill: 2.6 mi
  • Pine Hill: 2.6 mi
  • Long Hill: 2.6 mi
Museums
Waterfalls: 21
  • Cascade: 1.3 mi
  • Cascade: 1.4 mi
  • Silver Falls: 11.5 mi
  • Yantic Falls: 14.2 mi
  • Cascade: 19.3 mi
Attractions: 21
Artworks: 20
  • John Kelley Statue: 2.9 mi
  • Stonehenge Replica: 3.3 mi
  • Mystic Blue: 3.6 mi
  • Mjolnir: 4.3 mi
  • Giant Gnome: 4.3 mi
Gardens: 14
  • Sensory Garden: 4.9 mi
  • Bertholf Plaza: 5.0 mi
  • Caroline Black Garden: 5.2 mi
  • Cutting Garden: 5.2 mi
  • East Garden: 5.2 mi
Cliffs: 6
Rest areas: 5
  • Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 3.7 mi
  • Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 10.8 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 21.5 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 23.9 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 24.0 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Picnic sites: 4
Springs: 2
  • Old Spring: 6.1 mi
  • Factory Pond: 22.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.4 miles of Ring Drive Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Church HillN 7°120 m8.5 mi
Konomoc HillWNW 302°112 m9.1 mi
Gungywamp HillNNW 340°108 m4.9 mi
Vinegar HillNNW 344°108 m6.4 mi
Haughton MountainNNW 329°103 m8.9 mi
Jeremy HillNE 46°101 m8.7 mi
Great HillWNW 303°99 m7.8 mi
Pumpkin HillNNE 20°96 m6.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5218:2419:00
June solstice05:1619:4420:26
September equinox06:3618:1118:47
December solstice07:1115:3816:22

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313340495867737366554637
Precip in3.93.44.94.43.73.93.44.24.34.43.84.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groton, 1 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Great Blue Heron122 obs
  • Great Egret96 obs
  • rugosa rose79 obs
  • White-tailed Deer62 obs
  • Osprey60 obs
  • Double-crested Cormorant53 obs
  • shining sumac47 obs
  • Atlantic Blue Crab46 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/359280446

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